The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-02-03

L. w. MEATH, OF M larry lanu, LAS |
been appointed Consul at Munich,
Germany, to succeed the late General
Harper.
POTTER PALMER, of Chicago, paid
off the last mortgage on his property
recently. He borrowed ST., $50, 900 af
ter the great fire of 1871.
TIE Republicans are 40 pleased
with Charley Vallaudigham that they
will probably take back all the mean
things they ever said about his father.
THE Ohio House, last Friday morn
ing. adopted joint resolution provid
ing that the Legislature adjourn on |
March 8. There is little doubt of its
adoption by the Senate.
The bill introduced in the Ohio
Heu 90 by Mr.. Young, of Marion, de-
signed to prevent swindling, such as
{ ,e bohemian oats and red line ras
calities, was defeated by Republican
vhtes.
The Mexican pension bill has final
ly be come q law, and the old veteran
of the Mexican war, who yet survive,
will hereafter receive IS per month.
CONGRESSMAN MCKINLEY, Repub
lican, of Ohio, says taxation should
not bs reduced. Republicans believe
in extravagant expenditure and high
kaxatio tn meet If
THERE are in America over 4, ,0O0,OO
farms. large and small. They cover
nearly 300, 800, 600 acres of improved
land, and their value is something
like Sic, ,OOO, GOO, 900.
A CONVENTION of the most promi
nent men of this State, held at Co
lumbus last Friday, urged the feast
bility and justice of erecting a statue
to the memory of John Brown.
The Senate Judiciary are favorably
considering the recommendation of q
change in the law, reducing the mum
ber of peremptory jury challenges i'll
capital cases from 2S to l3.
T.. 6 BALDWIN, an @ronaut, jumped
from balloon at San Francisco, OIL
Sunday, at height of l 600 feet, de
scending with q parac hute safely to
the ground. The feat is believed t.
be the greatest of its kind on record
HIGH WATER at Warren last week
flooded out four hundred rats, to tht
great delight of the terriers, who un
doubtedly regarded it as pretty good
day for rats.
SHERIFF WALKER has sued the city
of Youngstown Tor damages resulting
from boys coasting contrary to an or
dinance, in which they ran into his
sleigh causing runaway eliminating
in a general smash-up. He claims
the officials made no effort to enforc.
the ordinance.
TH Rec tramps pillaged farm house
near London. AS they were about t.
leave, big Newfoundland dog grab
bed one of them by the throat and
held him till the farmer came and tied
him up. The other two hastily drop
ped their plunder and escaped.
A YoUG GENTLEMAN wishes TO know
which is proper to say on leaving 4
young lady friend after a late call,
"good night" or "good evening?
Never tell a lie, young man; say ''gooa
list. Paul Herald.
OUT of 60 members of the Ohio
House of Representatives interviewed
as to their preference for President il
1888, 46 are for Sherman, s for Blaine,
for Foraker, and decline to express
their choice. With but few exceptions
the second choice is for Blaine.
LOCAL OPTION received q heavy
blow ia the Ohio House on Thursday
morning last, when the Lampson bill
was defeated by vote of So nays to 4.
yeas. a motion was made to recon
sider the bill, which WAS carried anG
its further consideration was postpOn
ed until today.
MINNESOTA may well be called tn,
polyglot State. The Legislature ha.
decided that the inaugural address OF
Governor McGill shall be printed H.
ten languages, viz: English, German,
Norwegian, Swedish, French, Bohe
milan, Finnish, Polish, Italian, and
Chinese.
BECAUsE the Erie, Pa, grocers were
buying flour where they could gel
what was satisfactory to their custo
mers, for the least money, the local
millers commenced war on them by
retailing at wholesale prices. Outside
mjllers have ordered the grocers to
meet every cut, and flour has taken q
tumble in that market in consequence
VIM. WIEsE, Superintendent of the
Schumacher Mills. Akron, is myster
iousIy missing. He has been in the
mills twenty y,ars and many of the
b .nds deposited their surplus earn
ipgs with him. He had nearly 81 SOC
of lis money when he left, beside
81 600 raised by mortgagiBg his hemt
o few days ago. His wife Is greatly
distressed and his creditors suspicious
THE fourth annual meeting of tn,
Ohio State Sanitary Association Wi
be held in the Committee Room of tt
Neal House, Columbus, o., on Thus
day and Friday, February 10 and ii
A number of interesting papers will
be presented. Reduced railroad far.
has been secured for those wishing Il
attend.
ONLY $4,000, 600 more of the per
cent. Government bonds remain to be
cllled, and when they are gone there
will be no more public debt to be re
deemed for five years, except by pur
chase in open market at high pre-
MUM. a method which the country
would never indorse. Evidently the
revenue must soon be reduced or the
surplus expended in some new way,